grey
IPA: grˈeɪ
noun
- UK and Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
- A surname transferred from the nickname, alternative spelling of Gray
- A placename
- A river, the Grey River, on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand.
- An English earldom.
- (UK, military, historical, chiefly in the plural) A member of the Royal Scots Greys, a cavalry regiment of the British Army from 1707 to 1971.
- Ellipsis of Grey County. [A county in Southwestern Ontario, Ontario, Canada, named after Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey.]
verb
- UK and Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
adjective
- UK and Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
- (South Africa, slang) Synonym of coloured (pertaining to the mixed race of black and white).
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Examples of "grey" in Sentences
- He's raising the V-sign to what he calls grey-haired, corrupt, politicians advocating a revolution in
- He's raising the V-sign to what he calls grey-haired, corrupt, politicians advocating a revolution in Italian politics.
- 'We have seen very bad written rules, what I call grey rules, with different interpretations,' he told reporters before the Bahrain Grand Prix.
- I was wondering, Both KOM and SI do two schemes - pale greys and a dark greeny brown, seeing as most prey animals are mostly grey, do you think the grey is more effective?
- In addition, there are approximately 12 patriots, such as Mthetheleli Mncube and Robert McBride, whom the regime has unilaterally lumped together into what it calls the grey-area category.
- As a Gibson employee wrote in an internal email about how the company could get Madagascar wood onto what it called the "grey market": "All legal timber and wood exports are prohibited because of widespread corruption and theft of valuable woods like rosewood and ebony."
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